The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-11-03

Gen. Henry Jackson, ex-miniS-
ter TO Mexico, in his speech to the /
veterans said: "Confederate yete- |
rans-There stands npon the soil
OF Georgia the distinguished Mis-
sissjppian who within tie life OF |
the present. sgeaeration was the 81
called traitor leader Of so-calied |
lost cause. We, confederate vele
rams, relicts of the armies which
fought for that cause, are here to
meet him, to move before him, in
the pride and pomp of no Roman
triumph, 1T is true, bat bending our
necks to no Roman yoke of subiu-
gatIon-by invitation of the state of
Georgia, speaking through her duly
empowered officials, all have come.
Behold majestic truth revealing her
sell. State so ereignty is not dead.
Georgia Is sovereign still ana
calls upon her people to glory with
her to-day. Her glory is in her
history. Her history is the mem
DRY Of her dead and this day is con
secrated to her confederate dead.
They were guilty CT no treason 20
her. To whom could they be
traitors? Where shall we seek
their higher sovereign? Shall we
find him in the federal constitution?
Then there was q sovereign smit-
ten to the earth by traitors hands,
trampled in the dust by traitors
feet, but the hands and the feet
were not theirs.
do we hold that the men who
fought against them were traitors?
Not at all. ss1ss They, too, were loyal
to their sovereign. The consutu-
ton was but trea y between high
contracting sovereign parties, with
out one atom of sovereignty in it.
self, since with impunity through
long years of painful agitation was
it broken by the sovereign party of
the north. They enacted into crime
the mere attempt of federal power
to enforce it's DEGREES within their
dominiOns, and because after de-
cades of endurance as patient as it
was delusIve, the sovereign partiea
OF the south declined to accent
their revolutionary will in perma-
nent place of the constitution, the
, compact breaking soverelgns of the
north with numbers overwhelming
, and material unbounded, made ag
gressive war upon them to force
them to accept it. The people Of
: the world have been told that the
: people OF the south made the war
! to perpetuate African slavery.
This is false. They did not create
: institute, nor do they wish 10 re-
store it.
"The principle for which VIC
: fought, the only principle Of gov
e eminent expressive enough to NEE
, the requirements of advancing civ
, iiization, made of late by Glad
j stones elOquence so familiar TO Eu
0 ropesns, was American born. Red
, With the blood of confederate heroes
y moist with :he tears OF confederate
widows and orphans, eastward shall
1t continue to roll, carrying with i
= the blessed light Of the christian
+ civilization all round the globe, anC
b so surely as it moves it shall bring
1: the day of triumph.
+ "ln that triumphal procession.
+ Abraham Lincoln shall not move q;
the rightful president, but defer
son Davis, the so called traitor
leader of 50 called lost cause. W e
n as confederates. can echo from oul
hearts the pstriotic cry of Webstel
n the great: Thanks be to God tina
# /, too, am an American citizen,
] but if the so-called new south be
/! base surrender of the old, a falls,
+ confession, meanly false, of sham,
/, in our past, shame in our sires
> ahame 70 our dead, which non.
Y but the siliest fool can honestl,
+ feel, then with all ofthe power giyel
G to us by the Gcd of truth, we cry
" "Avaunt, false south. Avaunt
. rotten trunk upon cursed root
n thy fruit must turn to ashes?"